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Shwopping, its shopping but swaping

Posted by gem, 13th July 2010


Hands up who likes shopping....Yip thats about every girl in the universe (aliens read my website too, it comes up in Google analytics)

Hands up who, given the opportunity, would like to pay no moolah to shop....Yip thats about everyone, girls and boys in the universe.

WARNING! On coming 'rant' paragraph.

Hands up who has a mega stach of quality clothes that have hardly ever been worn because they just go through phazes... Read more
 

One of my favourite times of the year is coming up! The annual pre-loved clothing sale. This year however, it is in a different location....@ Wesley Church Hall, 75 Taranaki Street.

It was crazy busy last year, so maybe they have moved to create more space for all that pre-loved designer goodness.

So, you buy the clothes, and the money gets donated to support refugees through the ChangeMakers Refugee Forum. A very good cause. They raised $14,000... Read more
CATEGORY: opshoptreasures

Pretty Plate Preoccupation

Posted by gem, 9th December 2009
Plates, plates, plates, pretty plates. I'm preoccupied with pretty plates. Everywhere I go, any secondhand store I pass, any fair I go to..what am I looking for??.........PRETTY PLATES!

On a recent trip up north I scouted some relatively undiscovered secondhand stores and adopted some pretty plates for my china cabinet. They now join my handbells and my baby tea cups to live in permanent admiration. You may see them modelling on the catwalk that is prettysweetthings... Read more
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